It's good to have friends. I have friends in all lines of work, notall of it strictly legal. I guess I should say that I may haveplayed fast and loose with the law in the past, but who hasn't? It'sall a question of degree. Show me an honest man, and I'll show you a poor one standing in the same shoes. This world doesn't rewardhonesty. That doesn't mean that there's no place for honor, ordecency, or loyalty, but it doesn't pay to play the fool. We live ina world where a man will be jailed for stealing a can of soup, butyou can run a bank into the ground and ex-presidents will still sendyou a card at Christmas. Law and justice aren't the same thing: notall laws are made to be broken, but some are made to be bent.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying that I'm about tobreak any laws, but I have a friend to the north who puts somebusiness my way, and I return the favor when I can. It keeps mefresh, gives me something to do on those long afternoons when the baris quiet. I like to plan. I watch what's going on around me. I'mcareful that way. I look after my friends, and my friends look afterme.

It's good to have friends. It's good the have the rightkind of friends.

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